School: Cillín
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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- (continued from previous page)times as a barrel. The pans were made of metal. Those pans were filled with salt water. Big fires were put under those pans. The salt water in those pans were boiled into salt. The water was spilled out of the pans. The salt was brought home and left near the fire to dry. If the day was good the sun dried the salt.Told by:-
Pat Doherty
Muingreevagh
Ballycastle
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- Collector
- Children of Killeen National School
- Informant
- Peter Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockaun, Co. Mayo